The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC) has hired direct marketing veteran David Kenny as its new chairman and CEO, effective immediately, the company said. Kenny comes to TWCC from mobile cloud computing company Akamai, where he served as president. Prior to Akamai, Kenny cofounded and served as managing partner of VivaKi, the digital arm of the Publicis Groupe. Prior to that, he was CEO of Digitas for more than a decade.